Communications Manager – BFH-HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute
'What I particularly love about my job are the super-exciting projects. I'm right at the heart of them and lead them from initialization to implementation.' Priscilla Caliandro
Communications Manager – BFH-HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute
70 % Limited until 3 years Zollikofen Start 01.01.2026 or by arrangement Homeoffice possible
To start with, here are some of our strong points
1. An incredible variety of themes enriching and adding spice to this important control and support function.
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2. International teaching staff that combines tradition with innovation and excellence with experiment and thus gives students individual guidance towards their own careers.
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3. Great freedom in work organisation with lots of leeway for your ideas, your creativity and decisiveness.
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4. When looking for solutions, it helps to be curious and to think truly outside the box.
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5. Responsibility in hugely exciting projects for the future attracting attention beyond the professional world.
And here are even more good reasons to opt for BFH
What you'll be doing here
6. Strengthen the Institute's and HAFL's visibility and reputation in international agricultural, forest, food sciences, and resource management research and education
7. Create and disseminate internal and external communications to promote the work of the Institute and its staff, students and partners
8. Collaborate with internal and external colleagues and partners to ensure effective communication
9. Organise the Institute's Annual Event and other communication and knowledge management practices
10. Write and publish website news stories and project/staff profiles, as well as working paper series, newsletters, press releases, social media posts, audiovisual materials, etc.
What you'll bring with you
11. Relevant bachelor's or master's degree, preferably in communication/marketing or agricultural/forest/food or life sciences or international development
12. Minimum 3–5 years working in corporate or university communications, marketing, science communications, or other relevant fields, including event organisation
13. Writing, networking, communication and organisational skills, ideally in the relevant thematic areas (agricultural/forest/food and life sciences)
14. Independent yet team-oriented work approach; intercultural and interdisciplinary skills and interests; expertise and/or interest in international cooperation and development
15. English native speaker, with good knowledge of German and ideally also French
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School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences
At HAFL, a department of BFH, we're all about connecting humans, nature and technology towards sustainable development. As a ground-breaking, pioneering think tank, we are engaged in the creation and teaching of knowledge for the world of today and of tomorrow – bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, resilient and always solidly grounded at the same time.
Doing something meaningful in a fascinating environment and with an outlook to the future: a job at Bern University of Applied Sciencesmakes perfect sense.
Place of work
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